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Missouri teams to petition for legal sports betting ballot initiative

Missouri's professional sports teams announced Friday that they have started a petition to legalize sports betting on the November ballot. The initiative is an attempt to circumvent the Missouri Senate, where bills to allow sports betting have repeatedly stalled. Missouri is one of just 12 states where sports betting remains illegal, more than five years […]

Judges let Missouri lawsuit accusing China of pandemic-era PPE hoarding proceed

The state of Missouri may sue China for hoarding masks and other protective equipment, a judicial panel ruled Wednesday. A panel of the Eighth District Court of Appeals otherwise rejected Missouri's position suing sovereign foreign corporations and allowed only the buyout claims to proceed. “Missouri's overarching theory is that China took advantage of the world's […]

Missouri Dad Accused of Letting 16-Year-Old Son Have Sex with Math Teacher

Prosecutors have charged a man in Pulaski County, Missouri, with allowing his 16-year-old son to have sex with his high school math teacher. The victim's father, who has not been identified, was charged with endangering the welfare of a child, KRCG report Thursday. Meanwhile, police identified the teacher as Haley Nichelle Clifton Carmack, 26. Said […]

Six members of Rashad Jamal’s cult missing in Missouri

Six people associated with a so-called “media prophet” who promotes wild conspiracy theories online have been missing in the St. Louis area since August, police said. Missouri State Police are searching for four adults and two children, ages 2 and 3. They all lived in the same rented house near Lambert St. Louis Airport when […]

Missouri teacher slapped with rape charges after having sex with teen while using other students as ‘lookouts,’ boy’s dad busted  for allowing relationship: docs

A Missouri teacher has been charged with statutory rape after allegedly having sex with a 16-year-old student while another student was “watching,” and the boy's father also allegedly condoned the disturbing relationship. He is charged with a serious crime. Hayley Clifton Carmack, 26, a math teacher at LaQuie High School, was arrested in Garden Ridge, […]

Missouri Catholic priest found guilty of soliciting sex during confession

A Catholic priest in Missouri has been found guilty by the church of soliciting sexual favors from adults during confession, church officials announced. Father Ignazio Medina, a priest in the Diocese of Jefferson City, was barred from holding any church office, celebrating public mass, or hearing confessions from parishioners immediately after his conviction in an […]